tailieunhanh - In Search of the Unknown

Tham khảo sách 'in search of the unknown', giải trí - thư giãn, truyện ngắn phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | feedboo is In Search of the Unknown Chambers Robert William Published 1904 Categorie s Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Source http 1 About Chambers Robert William Chambers May 26 1865 - December 16 1933 was an American artist and writer. He was born in Brooklyn New York to William P. Chambers 1827 - 1911 a famous lawyer and Caroline Chambers née Boughton a direct descendant of Roger Williams the founder of Providence Rhode Island. Robert s brother was Walter Boughton Chambers the world famous architect. Robert was first educated at the the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and then entered the Art Students League at around the age of twenty where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at Académie Julian in Paris from 1886 to 1893 and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life Truth and Vogue magazines. Then for reasons unclear he devoted his time to writing producing his first novel In the Quarter written in 1887 in Munich . His most famous and perhaps most meritorious effort is The King in Yellow a collection of weird fiction short stories connected by the theme of a book to which the title refers which drives those who read it insane. Chambers fictitious drama The King in Yellow features in Karl Edward Wagner s story The River of Night s Dreaming while James Blish s story More Light purports to include much of the actual text of the play. Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines. After 1924 he devoted himself solely to writing Historical fiction . On July 12 1898 he married Elsa Vaughn Moller 1882-1939 . They had a son Robert Edward Stuart Chambers later